Pataphysical Graffiti is a collection of rock tunes that borrows the language and instrumentation of the genre but removes the “twee” and “preciousness” that one might expect to hear from a group that does “French indie pop.”

Portrait is the perfect soundtrack to the end of fall and the beginning of winter, when there’s a chill in the wind and the air bites the lungs. Hopefully there’s a fire in the fireplace, and the firewood simmers, flames and burn down to embers.

Wasting Light, supposedly a new chapter in Foo Fighters’ discography, is really more of the same, and “These Days” provides a perfect example of why their sonic flying saucer attack really crashed and burned years ago, or at least should have.